Video Compression Basics

We covered basic file parameters in Chapter 4, but now it’s time to apply them, so let’s review. Any time you encode a file, you’ll choose a number of output parameters. Figure 7.1 presents many of these parameters in a screenshot from Sorenson Squeeze. This is a popular encoding program used by many producers, particularly those producing multiple files in multiple distribution formats such as MPEG-2, RealVideo, Windows Media, QuickTime, and MPEG-4.